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I feel cheeky starting a thread like this when I'm a newbie. But I've lurked for ages, I'm just not a poster.

I'm writing a book called The Bad Movie Bible. It's a coffee table type thing which features 101 movies that are so bad they're good. Specifically it covers the last 50 years. (As much as I love Ed Wood and co I wanted to tap into the post-Hays code and VHS eras more.)

Anyway, I've been working on it for six months and it's due for publication in May. I'm posting because I have two slots left to fill and my brain has finally keeled over. Having watched thousands of bad movies in my life I started watching half a dozen a day as research, and it's finally gotten to me. There are dozens of possibles I could put in but I've kept the standard high and don't want to compromise at the last hurdle, so I'm looking for a final round of suggestions, if anyone is good enough to make any?

The obvious stuff is all in there: Miami Connection, The Room, Troll 2, Samurai Cop, Birdemic etc. But if anyone has any less mainstream favourites they think haven't got the attention they're due, please let's hear them.

From South Africa:
SPACE MUTINY
NUKIE
THE DEMON
LASER MISSION
OPERATION DELTA FORCE

Thanks very much, this is the sort of thing I'm after.

Is that the 1979 The Demon? Operation Delta Force was already on my 'maybe watch' list so a second recommendation makes it a priority. I interviewed its director Sam Firstenberg about Ninja III recently and he sent me a bunch of cool behind the scenes pics.

(Love Space Mutiny, and Laser Mission is actually in the book. Any movie with a villain who can survive a mountain landing on him is ok by me.)

Hobgoblins, Turisk Starwars  :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:

AFTER LAST SEASON. The director tried to have all copies removed form circulation, though. It's a holy grail type experience of awfulness.

Apparently the distributor for the film told all the theaters showing it to burn their copies because it was cheaper than having them sent back. Not a vote of confidence.

And there's Youtube to the rescue:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETWwKnlvh4A#)

Gah!!! Make that awful piano stop!!!!

I will offer up... THINGS
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183881/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183881/)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiqSuC8KkNU#)

So many choices . . . for 80's cheese, I highly recommend THE LOST EMPIRE.
For Japanese weirdness, you can't top HELLDRIVER.
And any book on Bad Movies from the 70's MUST include ZARDOZ.

Let me know when this thing is complete!

Hellgate (1989)
Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Evils of the Night (1985)

Night of the Demon (1980) -- Bigfoot rips off a guy's wang in one scene. Amazingly demented.

Scream Baby Scream (1969) -- Painter of deformed images has unconventional models. Late 60's awfulness.

Satan's Children (1975) -- Young man gang raped by biker types must prove himself worthy of a Satanic cult.

A*P*E (1976) -- 3D Korean rip off of "King Kong". The ape flips off the Army. Seriously. Awful, but fun.

Terrorvision
Son of Dracula (the Ringo Starr version)
Bloodsucking Freaks
Zombie Lake
Dracula vs Frankenstein
R.O.T.O.R.

Yes it is that film, set in Johannesburg where every murder is punctuated by a shot of the sea - no sea anywhere here. The director was a friend of mine and the cinematographer is a mentor of mine. :buggedout: :teddyr: :teddyr:


The budget on this was so low, they used fireworks as rockets, every time a weapon is raised, there's a audible click and the defence force HQ uses standard TV sets as multi function screens.  :buggedout:

Another thing, the main bad guy played by Joe Lara, uses the phrase Afrikaners for Afrikaner land, little knowing that the word 'Afrikaner' means 'African' in translation.  :buggedout: :buggedout:

 :buggedout: :buggedout:

I watched Operation Delta Force last night, it's on YouTube. I had a lot of fun with it, great stuff. Man, Jeff Fahey has never short changed a movie in his life, he gives everything his all!

Thanks very much, there's some really promising stuff here.

Maybe i need to revisit Zardoz. Haven't seen if for years but I don't remember it being that bad. But I think Ishtar is quite good so...

After Last Season, R.O.T.O.R, Things and A*P*E are in the book. R.O.T.O.R is in my top 5 bad movies. Things was my go-to worst horror movie ever made until I saw Science Crazed and Ax 'Em. After Last Season... wow. I mean, just, wow.

Now I'm off to find a bunch of these suggestions.

The filmmakers also tried to pass off Johannesburg as Mozambique - in the village attack sequence, you can see huge mine dumps behind them, a Johannesburg symbol.  :teddyr:

The Giant Claw
The Brain From Planet Arous
The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Mystics in Bali (1981) - It has a disembodied head flying around with guts hanging from it.

Miami Connection (1987) - Super fun terribly sentimental martial arts rock band buddy movie.


I just saw this last night!  I second this recommendation!  Totally gross!

Story Of Ricky  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/?ref_=nv_sr_2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/?ref_=nv_sr_2)

Demented martial arts movie.

'Stand and point' crowd scene acting - check
Graveyard destroying training scene  - check
Guy strangling somebody with his own intestines - che.... Wait, what?

Riki-Oh looks a bit good but I'll check it out.

Mystics in Bali is great and Miami Connection... well, what can you say? I haven't opened a letter without thinking about it for two years.

I know and really like two of those old classics, Jase, which means The Brain from Planet Arous is now on my watchlist.

Thank you again.

The Bride and the Beast(1958) with a screenplay from Ed Wood, how can you go wrong? A newlywed woman leaves her husband to take up with a gorilla after she realizes that she was a female gorilla in a past life.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein(1971) Al Adamson's schlock opus with appearances from Lon Chaney Jr., J.Caroll Naish, Jim Davis, Russ Tamblyn, Anthony Aisley and Angelo Rossito. With Zandor Vorkov as Count Dracula.. one the all-time bad classics.

If you are going to steer clear of Ed Wood, there is also TANYA'S ISLAND(1980) which also deals with gorilla love. Vanity(Prince's later protege) falls for an ape after her wacko boyfriend abuses her on a tropical island. The ape becomes more appealing as her boyfriend turns more savage til she decides to make a go of it with the ape. Train wreck stuff here, but fun to watch!

Monsturd
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Frankenhooker
The Stuff
Deathbed The Bed that Eats
Bad Taste
Night of the Leepus
Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Samurai Cop
Crippled Masters
Maximum Overdrive
Shark Attack 3
Anything Neil Breen has done (pick any of the 4)
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Barbarians
The Taint

Blood Freak (1972): the most inept drug-addicted were-turkey Jesus movie you ever did see.

It fails on all cylinders.

more suggestions: No Holds Barred (1989), Robot Monster (1953), The Babe Ruth Story (1948), Mommie Dearest (1981), The Room (2003)

More good stuff, thanks very much. Quite a few of the recently mentioned ones are actually in the book: Blood Freak, Death Bed, Samurai Cop, Shark Attack 3, Frogtown. And Neil Breen and The Room feature prominently. I managed to p**s off Breen because I didn't realise how seriously he takes his movies. He sent me a detailed explanation of why Fateful Findings and got cross when I started contacting his known associates. I also bagged a pretty cool interview with Tommy Wiseau about The Room. Just had to be his roadie for a night, which was an experience.

It's all finished up now. I ended up filling the last spots with Who Killed Captain Alex and The Divine Enforcer. The latter just because of how s**t-faced Jan-Michael Vincent is in it. But I need to get the website up and running next so these suggestions are brilliant, thanks again.

The Last Dinosaur (1977) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076294/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
Shark Attack in the Mediterranean (2004) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376753/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092548/?ref_=nv_sr_3) (all of the American Ninja movies, in fact)

Anything by Tim Kincaid is pretty awful-he did BREEDERS (1986) ROBOT HOLOCAUST (1986) and my favorite MUTANT HUNT (1987)

http://youtu.be/7dASmpkit60 (http://youtu.be/7dASmpkit60)

Please let us know when the book will be released, its' title, etc, thanks.

Also, if you need info regarding the South African films on the list, please email me at TrevorM@dac.gov.za.  :smile:

I'm surprised no-one said Troll or Troll 2. I would add in Fiend Without a Face, Laser Blast, Teenagers from Outer Space, The Blade Master (or Ator 2), The Wraith.

Im currently about 30 mins into MASSACRE IN DINOSAUR VALLEY and its already a contender for the silliest film Ive ever seen...possible entry there

I think it's reasonable to assume one or both are already in the book!


saw this the other day... so terrible. but I lasted it out. any worse and I would've had to give up, definitely. that dumb Barbie girl and her jock boyfriend 2 of the most irritating characters in movie history